Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[PapaPetro]

After seeing the Nautiloid, I'm getting a vibe that githyanki will play a part in the story. The CHARNAME will travel to the astral plane and will somehow get the Githyanki to counter the Illithid threat and work on a solution to ensure that both the gith and flayers fuck off from Toril afterwards.

The gith wouldn't want to be on Toril. It screws them up big time with the aging thing.

Didn't stop them from breached Toril before in BG2 when they intercepted CHARNAME looking for their silver sword.
They probably will just handwave the astral plane time catch-up/dilation stuff away.

They sent in the youngsters, which was why you were slaughtering them so easily. The really old ones like Zeeaire don't leave the Astral, which was why when you forced her into the Material, she was severely weakened and was in deep doo-doo.

Would the transition affect someone like Vlaakith? With her being a lich and whatnot. Plus the Gith are pretty longlived, 200+ year lifespans. I'm sure dipping into the material (or any plane with linear time traits) ain't no thing at this point for them. Chilling out on dead gods in the Astral Plane has gotta to get boring for them eventually.

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't think you can do party based combat in third person, so I think it is out of the book.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi. Are you new to the internet or gaming perchance?

 

[Ziggy]

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi.

and we say bye

 

[Barabus]

and drankensang say wots up goblina

 

[ArchAngel]

I don't think you can do party based combat in third person, so I think it is out of the book.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi. Are you new to the internet or gaming perchance?

Dragon Age Origins at least had a "top down" camera that let you play it almost like Bg2.

 

[J_C]

I don't think you can do party based combat in third person, so I think it is out of the book.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi. Are you new to the internet or gaming perchance?

Don't play dumb, you know that Dragon Age (after Origins) and Mass Effect are not considered party based RPGs.

 

[agris]

Do we know how many lines will fit on the combat log yet, and how quests without markers will be handled?

 

[Mexi]

Fuck TB. Needs to be RTwP. I can take or leave 3rd person ala DA: O, though. Not too worried about that. Only thing worried about is that Larian has some godawful writers. I wonder what happened to the people that made Baldur's Gate: SoD, though? Are they now shutdown or something? Someone posted their BG: 3 endeavor that failed. What are they up to now?

 

[Mortmal]

We dont know anything about combat yet, only that is not divinity original sin engine. So it can go from rtwp to action , very unlikelyrtwp since it goes to console . Either turn based , or action like dragon age inquisition both work on console.I really wish its turn based, but not a single info about it.

 

[Barabus]

Fuck TB. Needs to be RTwP. I can take or leave 3rd person ala DA: O, though. Not too worried about that. Only thing worried about is that Larian has some godawful writers. I wonder what happened to the people that made Baldur's Gate: SoD, though? Are they now shutdown or something? Someone posted their BG: 3 endeavor that failed. What are they up to now?

They working on an axis and allies game

 

[Strange Fellow]

I don't think you can do party based combat in third person, so I think it is out of the book.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi. Are you new to the internet or gaming perchance?

Don't play dumb, you know that Dragon Age (after Origins) and Mass Effect are not considered party based RPGs.

I agree with your initial argument J_C, but just to be pedantic: Mordheim? Its RPG status may be questionable, but it's certainly 3rd person tactical party-based combat.

 

[Mexi]

Never played Inqusition. I don't know what you mean by "action." like Witcher 3 action?

 

[Sailor Woedica]

 

[Rivmusique]

Do we know how many lines will fit on the combat log yet, and how quests without markers will be handled?

Combat Log:

Requires level 13

2 handed weapon

420 - 670 damage
+5-15 strength
+5-15 constitution

may spawn with EPIC effect: 2%-10% Chance of inflicting STUN status on hit.

quest reward from "The Boulder's Gate's Missing Stones!" or randomly looted from firewine ruins respawning kobolds (2 hour farm will almost certainly get one drop).

 

[Ziggy]

vampire 2, baldurs gate 3...whats next, elder scrolls 4? damn!

 

[Cael]

After seeing the Nautiloid, I'm getting a vibe that githyanki will play a part in the story. The CHARNAME will travel to the astral plane and will somehow get the Githyanki to counter the Illithid threat and work on a solution to ensure that both the gith and flayers fuck off from Toril afterwards.

The gith wouldn't want to be on Toril. It screws them up big time with the aging thing.

Didn't stop them from breached Toril before in BG2 when they intercepted CHARNAME looking for their silver sword.
They probably will just handwave the astral plane time catch-up/dilation stuff away.

They sent in the youngsters, which was why you were slaughtering them so easily. The really old ones like Zeeaire don't leave the Astral, which was why when you forced her into the Material, she was severely weakened and was in deep doo-doo.

Would the transition affect someone like Vlaakith? With her being a lich and whatnot. Plus the Gith are pretty longlived, 200+ year lifespans. I'm sure dipping into the material (or any plane with linear time traits) ain't no thing at this point for them. Chilling out on dead gods in the Astral Plane has gotta to get boring for them eventually.

Short jaunts, no probs. Building an empire? That would take a bit of convincing, I think.

 

[Saxon1974]

Please turn based, please not full on action. I don't really like RTWP but it's better than full action mode

 

[AwesomeButton]

Do we know how many lines will fit on the combat log yet, and how quests without markers will be handled?

Combat log? People used to need that 20 years ago. Times have changed!

So heavy C&C is confirmed.. good, I hope we can help Illithids take over Faerun muahhahaha

Don't tell me you believed him about C&C

It *could* be that, but since Larian really haven't fucked us over yet

Sure they did. I trusted Sven about D:OS2 not being a piece of shit.

 

[Mexi]

Guys I thought about the engine a little bit.

It's not the DOS engine they said. But they also said that it's an engine they already have. And it's not like Larian has 10 franchises so it should be fairly easy to determine. EDIT: I'm almost certain it's an upgraded version of the Risen engine, i.e. an upgraded version of this:

Spoiler

Someone said yesterday this may be the "Fallout 3 of DnD"... I hope not but honestly I am sensing a third-person/over-the-shoulder popamolized rubbish... god help us

We can only hope.

 

[Ziggy]

well it would be really funny if it was turn based but without top down view, like Mordheim. it would be stupid, uncomfortable, but I personally would get a laugh

 

[agris]

From the other, better BG3 thread where there's more independent thought:

Abandon all hope:

Mearls characterizes Baldur's Gate 3 as "part of the evolution of D&D [...] a very natural step. "This is a chance to get people who maybe don't have an interest in tabletop roleplaying, who are looking for something that's more just pure story. They don't necessarily want to immerse themselves in the rules. They can have a great experience that's very authentically D&D in terms of the puzzle solving and the storytelling without necessarily having to make the commitment of playing a tabletop game," he explains.

[Mike Mearls was co-lead designer for 5E and is the creative director for D&D. He knows the ruleset.]

 

[Mud']

I wonder

Someone said yesterday this may be the "Fallout 3 of DnD"... I hope not but honestly I am sensing a third-person/over-the-shoulder popamolized rubbish... god help us

Then maybe two years later we might have the New Vegas of DnD

 

[Cael]

Guys I thought about the engine a little bit.

It's not the DOS engine they said. But they also said that it's an engine they already have. And it's not like Larian has 10 franchises so it should be fairly easy to determine. EDIT: I'm almost certain it's an upgraded version of the Risen engine, i.e. an upgraded version of this:

Spoiler

technology we already have

Someone said yesterday this may be the "Fallout 3 of DnD"... I hope not but honestly I am sensing a third-person/over-the-shoulder popamolized rubbish... god help us

I think 4th Ed was the FO3 of DnD...

 

[Chippy]

They should have just released info detailing what type of game it's going to be. I don't see what the point of withholding that info can be? Does it build up hype? Will pessimists like me overlook other stuff if I find out it is a party-based isometric?. All smoke and mirrors. Personally, I'm leaving detect traps on.

 

[Mastermind]

I don't think you can do party based combat in third person, so I think it is out of the book.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect say hi. Are you new to the internet or gaming perchance?

Dragon Age Origins at least had a "top down" camera that let you play it almost like Bg2.

Dragon Age plays nothing like Bg2 (no, an overhead camera doesn't make it play "almost like Bg2").

Dragon Age 2 was a move in the right direction, improved on Kotor style combat in every way, tried something new with the narrative style (not that the story was especially interesting or well written but I'll give them credit where it's due) and is all around a much better game than Origins. The bioware can never make another BG2, they might as well stick to something they can do.